Praises the United States government's issuance of inflation-indexed Treasury notes. Benefits and drawbacks of the bonds; Complaints over the savings rate of Americans; Recommendations of the Social Security Advisory Council regarding investment allocation of the Social Security Trust Fund.

Examines the question of whether daily returns on Treasury bills exhibit day-of-the-week effects in the U.S. Rate of maturity for the bills released by the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board; Equation used in computing the prices from the rates and maturities of the bills;...